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7.4 CTRL W/ SMARTPHONE

Menu Position MENU  1  Ctrl w/ Smartphone

What it Does Initiates communication with your Wi-Fi enabled smartphone
that’s running the PlayMemories App.

Recommended Setting n/a

This function was covered in Section 4.4.2.

7.5 AIRPLANE MODE

Menu Position MENU  1  Airplane Mode

What it Does Disables Wi-Fi activity on your camera (and Eye-Fi card, if
inserted)

Recommended Setting n/a

Once upon a time, during the early 1990’s, there was some anecdotal
evidence from some airline flight attendants where a passenger’s laptop
with an external mouse-like device was interfering with the plane’s
newfangled GPS receivers. Since the Federal Aviation Administration (the
US government agency in charge of all flight safety rules and procedures)
had neither the funds nor the motivation to properly study the matter, they
just did the easiest thing: issue a blanket rule saying “electronic devices
cannot emit any radio frequency signals during flight”. The FAA
bureaucrats were happy and passengers routinely ignored it.
Anyway, for those of you who wish to adhere to the rule, turning Airplane
Mode “ON” will disable the camera’s Wi-Fi and NFC (“bump”) functions.

TIP: Wi-Fi doesn’t use any battery power unless you actually invoke a Wi-Fi
function. And NFC uses so trivially little compared to everything else in your
camera (CPU, display, and shoveling data from the chip to the LCD for live view)

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